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[Seance]

Have they ever not?

 

[GSG Flash]

A shitty Nintendo direct took out GAF. There's no chance it will survive the press conferences. Sucks because I actually remember a time when it was able to.

 

[Sola Scriptura]

They will probably shut down everything but the gaming side and turn off avatars.

At last year's E3, during my lurking days, I did notice that there were no avatars during E3.

 

[mephixto]

But isn't GAF already in the cloud? Or does that cloud need another cloud.

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Yep, but is not using the MS servers with Windows Kernel..

 

[IntelliHeath]

Honestly, they should revise the GIF. Change all subtitles to first day only.

 

[Goodacre0081]

They'll be over 300,000 servers just for neogaf alone.

(applause)

 

[IntelliHeath]

Also I would like to add that they got rid of "Quote" feature since I don't see it in User CP anymore so I guess they are trying to prepare for the worst.

 

[BrainZEROX]

And if the cloud is not enough, we still have the smoke...

 

[TryHardShounen]

GAF will just use the power of the cloud and everything will be okay. That's how things works nowadays.

 

[Chittagong]

My memory might fail me but I don't think gaf servers have survived major confs in the last few years at least. After the Xbone conf I don't expect to be able to post or read posts during the E3 keynotes, can't see the site holding up and don't want to get annoyed about it. I will watch the keynotes and subsequent GT commentary, and then return to gaf a few hours later to discuss.

 

[Aeana]

I don't understand why there would be an issue.

My internet always works perfectly and I haven't had a real outage in years. So why would I have any trouble getting onto GAF?

People are over reacting to this whole thing.

I like this post.

 

[Anticitizen One]

I think neogaf will be down all e3 week this time

 

[Woorloog]

My memory might fail me but I don't think gaf servers have survived major confs in the last few years at least. After the Xbone conf I don't expect to be able to post or read posts during the E3 keynotes, can't see the site holding up and don't want to get annoyed about it. I will watch the keynotes and subsequent GT commentary, and then return to gaf a few hours later to discuss.

As long as Search and Avatars are offline, and Off-Topic is closed, GAF seems to be handling E3 just about.
Only Search and Quote-thingy was offline for Xbone reveal so things were difficult.

Nice!

 

[EviLore]

I'm probably going to double the size of the server array temporarily for E3 week. Can't ever guarantee anything, especially with the insane traffic spiking these days, but a best effort will be made. The Xbone conference was too one-off to make hardcore preparations along those lines, and on top of that hitting 36k concurrent users was more than a little surprising.

 

[sheninu]

yep

 

[muteant]

should we create an IRC #?

 

[Stumpokapow]

oh my god stop making dupe threads everybody

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=544305

 

[Espada]

I do believe NeoGAF will employ the power of Cloud to survive E3.

Mastered Final Attack + Phoenix, Mastered Knights of the Round + MP Absorb, Mastered Knights of the Round + HP Absorb

VICTORY IS GUARANTEED

No seriously, the Big 3 having conferences on one day is going to be insane.

 

[Dennis]

I'm probably going to double the size of the server array temporarily for E3 week. Can't ever guarantee anything, especially with the insane traffic spiking these days, but a best effort will be made. The Xbone conference was too one-off to make hardcore preparations along those lines, and on top of that hitting 36k concurrent users was more than a little surprising.

Switch to GDDR5. I hear that is mighty fast RAM.

 

[SniperHunter]

I wish

 

[BDGAME]

Is someone already answered "no"? Cause, that is the true answer.

 

[bjscott05]

Might have to shut down OT for a while. I think that happened a few years ago. Shit got cray.

 

[EviLore]

Might have to shut down OT for a while. I think that happened a few years ago. Shit got cray.

There's such a huge traffic disparity between Gaming and OT now that it won't even put a dent in anything.

 

[Varg]

When it comes to big conferences or announcements, I don't even bother with Gaf. A piece of paper would shut down the servers. No way will they be up during E3. I just wait an hour or two after to log in and see everyone's reactions.

 

[DigitalOp]

There's such a huge traffic disparity between Gaming and OT now that it won't even put a dent in anything.

Its the lurkers I tell you! They lurk us to crash the fun! lol

 

[BY2K]

There's such a huge traffic disparity between Gaming and OT now that it won't even put a dent in anything.

Well, lurkers go on GAF for the gaming news, so that's not surprising.

 

[Murder. She Wrote]

I'm probably going to double the size of the server array temporarily for E3 week. Can't ever guarantee anything, especially with the insane traffic spiking these days, but a best effort will be made. The Xbone conference was too one-off to make hardcore preparations along those lines, and on top of that hitting 36k concurrent users was more than a little surprising.

All those articles about you and neogaf musta brought in a lot of new peeps. If the servers will hold up for E3, neogaf records might be broken.

 

[Aeana]

When it comes to big conferences or announcements, I don't even bother with Gaf. A piece of paper would shut down the servers. No way will they be up during E3. I just wait an hour or two after to log in and see everyone's reactions.

That's a little bit silly. Would you agree that the servers are running fine now? And generally run fine? There's about 10k users on right now. It's just that the increase during big events is much larger than is usually necessary to handle what we get on a day-to-day basis.

 

[DaBoss]

GAF will live during E3 with the power of EviLore.

BELIEVE!

 

[breakfuss]

No.

 

[Varg]

That's a little bit silly. Would you agree that the servers are running fine now? And generally run fine? There's about 10k users on right now. It's just that the increase during big events is much larger than is usually necessary to handle what we get on a day-to-day basis.

Yeah, my post is in regards to any event type situation. On a regular basis they run smooth as butter. Sucks for people who want to get on here and discuss during those times, but its also good seeing the site grow in popularity.

 

[Donthizz#]

EviLore is on documentaries these days, he has to deliver.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

Switch to GDDR5. I hear that is mighty fast RAM.

EviLore should just hand off the server duties to The Cloud™. I hear that's a thing people are doing these days.

Gaf would be 40x more stable after that upgrade.

 

[Globox_82]

how much cost extra servers? can't owners kickstart "new servers"? that's the only kickstart that I would support.

 

[Mesharey]

how much cost extra servers? can't owners kickstart "new servers"? that's the only kickstart that I would support.

That, and Shenmue 3.

 

[pubba]

Hopefully there will be a twitch channel set up, like the one for the X1 reveal. That was great fun!

 

[DietRob]

and on top of that hitting 36k concurrent users was more than a little surprising.

Wow, that is pretty amazing. Does concurrent users mean just members or is that the stat for members + lurkers?

I know I remember seeing close to 17k members browsing Gaming at one point.

 

[DaBoss]

Bumping this thread to ask a question. Is the search archiving or whatever it is called disabled in preparation for E3? Can't find any threads posted today using search.

 

[Pandemic]

So.. E3 is less than 24 hours away, hopefully GAF survives.. But I doubt it will!

Is it possible to block non registered users from the site..?

 

[DietRob]

Hi old thread.

 

[airmangataosenai]

If last year wasn't the year, you really think it'll go smoothly now?

 

[Souless_PJ]

So.. E3 is less than 24 hours away, hopefully GAF survives.. But I doubt it will!

Is it possible to block non registered users from the site..?

That's what I thought also. Just let members logged in view threads during peak times. It's the guests that kill it.

 

[Barack Lesnar]

Everything will be fine. I believe in Evil.

 

[MaximumFlipFlop]

Come on Evilore, tap GAF into the infinite power of the cloud. GAFfers get to rejoice for it not crashing and Microsoft can use this as free advertisement for the POWER OF THE CLOUDSSS!!!!!

 

[DaBoss]

What was the peak amount of users during the Xbone reveal?

 

[vilmer_]

Evilore pls.

It's not going to be pretty. But this is par for the course for the nubcakez.

 

[nib95]

I'm probably going to double the size of the server array temporarily for E3 week. Can't ever guarantee anything, especially with the insane traffic spiking these days, but a best effort will be made. The Xbone conference was too one-off to make hardcore preparations along those lines, and on top of that hitting 36k concurrent users was more than a little surprising.

36k. FUCK. Probably hit 50k+ for E3 then.

Because of all the DRM stuff, I think more people will be watching than normal.

 

[Seik]

GAF will live during E3 with the power of EviLore.

BELIEVE!

Evilore > Blast Processing

 

[Filth]

theres like 3-4 people banned from this page alone. the hell is going on? meltdowns in another thread?

 

[Bad_Boy]

e3 should be members only day. lurkers can wait